Join us for the most prestigious event in The Society’s calendar – our 2024 President’s Lecture and Awards Ceremony. This is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the triumphs of our community during the Award Ceremony, as well as hear from a notable speaker in our President’s Lecture. This is then followed by a networking drinks reception.

Members can attend The President’s Lecture and Award Ceremony either in person at The Royal Society of Medicine in London or online. Please select the appropriate option during the booking process. Please note, in person attendance is limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. 

When booking online, there is also the option to join us for our ‘Member Forum‘, which will be happening prior to The President’s Lecture from 13:00-16:00 GMT. For those attending in person, the two events will be held in the same building.

We are delighted to announce this year’s lecture will be given by Professor Nessa Carey. The title of her lecture is ‘Epigenetics and junk sequences – the death of the gene-centric dogma of DNA’.

About Nessa Carey

Nessa Carey is a PhD scientist who moved to the drug discovery industry after a successful career in academia at Imperial College London. She worked for almost 15 years in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors, ranging from start-ups to multinationals. Nessa pivoted to innovation support after this, designing and delivering training courses internationally for professionals in the technology transfer field. She now spends her time supporting innovation in UK universities and other public sector research establishments, and spent three years as a Royal Society Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Oxford. Nessa is passionate about enthusing the next generation of biologists and is the author of three popular science books – The Epigenetics Revolution (2011); Junk DNA (2015); Hacking the Code of Life (2020).